Word: byrds
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...Byrd Amendment—a cynical piece of special-interest pork if there ever was one—will soon, with any luck, meet its well-deserved demise. The 2000 law gave the money raised from import duties on foreign steel to American steel companies, effectively adding another layer of trade protection in the form of an industry subsidy. But last week, the World Trade Organization (WTO) cleared the way for punitive sanctions against American exports, which will hopefully coerce the United States to trade freely and fairly in the future...
...public trough. Other countries grant an incredible degree of protection to certain domestic industries, and they, too, should remove their trade barriers. We are particularly concerned about the “dumping” of cheap steel subsidized by foreign governments that compelled Congress to pass the Byrd Amendment. Dumping is just as anti-competitive as raising tariffs...
Congress must, of course, repeal the offensive parts of this amendment immediately. Whatever marginal advantage the Byrd amendment might conceivably have given steel companies will clearly be outweighed by the $150 million of punitive tariffs that other countries will soon impose on American goods. Manufacturers in otherwise successful industries do not need such an insult from law-makers...
...blue states, but states that were barely blue in the election. Other Democratic senators who won fairly easily last election cycle are facing reelection in states that have been red states or swing states in the past two elections. These include Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin and Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico. A good number of these ten senators will likely find their seats at risk, especially if the Republicans field moderate candidates who can undercut the incumbents on trademark Democratic issues...
...definitely was consulting with us on the campaign,” Byrd said...